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Cry it out...

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Looking for positive people...I don't need people tearing me down.
I started to let My 6 month old to soothe himself to sleep waiting different intervals to go in and reassure him mommys here and youre safe. It's been a week and it's gotten down to crying for 20 min. but he still will wake up in the middle up the night and not know how to fall back asleep so I in a sleepy state nurse him back to sleep. So i guess what I'm asking is that getting in the way of our progress and how much longer should I let him cry it out ...when will I know if it just won't work.

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I just found this. I'm still letting him cry it out although It has been all messed up. He goes to bed at 9:00. That is when he gets real sleepy. I then put him in bed and he cries. I live with my parents so it has made it to where they make me feel guilty. I feel so anxious and I started giving him a bottle to go asleep just so I don't have to hear my parents complain and tear me down. He cries at six and I feed him and then once he is done eatting in his crib he will cry to be put in bed with me. The boy is getting a routine and it's not a positive one. I don't want to say a baby is spoiled but he will be. I put him to bed tonight and my dad went up there and talked to him making him cry worse. I just wish I felt confident in this as a mother and to know that he doesn't feel scared by himself up there

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